War (disambiguation)
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War is a large-scale armed conflict and the term is used as a metaphor for non-military conflicts.
War or WAR may also refer to:
Places[edit]
- War, West Virginia
- War Creek, a stream in West Virginia
- Warwickshire county in England, standard code
Music[edit]
Performers[edit]
- War (band), an American 1970s funk band
Albums[edit]
- War (Bolt Thrower album), 2010
- War (Born from Pain album), 2006
- War (Demon Hunter album), 2019
- War (U2 album), 1983
- War (War album), by the American band
- The War (album), a 2017 album by South Korean-Chinese boy group EXO
- W.A.R. (We Are Renegades), by American hip hop artist Pharoahe Monch
Songs[edit]
- "The War" (Angels & Airwaves song)
- "War" (Bob Marley song), 1976
- "War" (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony song), 1998
- "War" (Drake song), 2019
- "War" (Henry Cow song), 1975
- "War" (King Von song), 2022
- "The War" (The New Power Generation song)
- "War" (Pop Smoke song), featuring Lil Tjay, 2019
- "War" (The Temptations song), 1970, also covered by Edwin Starr
- "The War Song", by Culture Club
- "War", by Amorphis from Halo
- "War", by ArrDee and Aitch, 2022
- "War", by Bathory from Bathory
- "War", by Burzum from Burzum
- "War", by Devin Townsend from Infinity
- "WAR!", by DragonForce from Reaching into Infinity
- "War", by Good Charlotte from Youth Authority
- "War", by Idles from Ultra Mono
- "War", by James Horner from Avatar: Music from the Motion Picture
- "War", by Jay Sean from All or Nothing
- "War", by Joe Satriani from The Extremist
- "The War", a 2020 song by Joyner Lucas from the album ADHD
- "War", by Judas Priest from Nostradamus
- "The War", a 2016 song by Leeland from the album Invisible
- "War", by Linkin Park from The Hunting Party
- "War", by Meshuggah from Rare Trax
- "War", by OutKast from Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
- "War", by Persuader from The Fiction Maze
- "War", by Poets of the Fall from Twilight Theater
- "War", by Sean Kingston from Tomorrow
- "War", by Shadows Fall from Retribution (uses same lyrics as Bob Marley's song "War")
- "War?", by System of a Down from System of a Down
- "War", by Goo Goo Dolls from Chaos in Bloom
- "War", by Venom Inc., 2017
- "War", by Wumpscut from Embryodead
- "War!", by Zach Callison from A Picture Perfect Hollywood Heartbreak
- "Street Fighter (War)", by Sick Puppies from Tri-Polar; used in commercials for the game Street Fighter IV
Computing[edit]
- Write after read, a data dependency hazard
- WAR (file format) (Web application ARchive), a file format used to package Java applications
- early versions of Decwar, a pioneering multi-user computer game
- War dialing, the act of detecting online, modem-accessible systems by having a computer dial a set of numbers
- Wardriving, the act of detecting wireless networking systems detecting by driving around with a Wi-Fi-equipped device
- Warchalking, notices drawn to alert people to the presence of Wi-Fi networks
Organizations[edit]
- White Aryan Resistance, an Indiana neo-Nazi white supremacist organization
- Wyatt Archaeological Research, an organization founded by amateur archaeologist Ron Wyatt
- Voina (meaning "War" in Russian), a Moscow-based performance artist collective
- Women Against Registry, a sex offender law reform organization
Wrestling[edit]
- WAR (wrestling promotion), a Japanese professional wrestling promotion known as Wrestle Association R
- Wrestling Academy Rorbas, a Swiss professional wrestling promotion
- W.A.R. Wrestling, an American independent wrestling promotion
Games[edit]
- War (card game), a two player card game typically using Anglo-American playing card deck
- a Brazilian variation of the board game Risk
- WARS Trading Card Game by Decipher
- Wars (series), a Nintendo video game series
- Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, a 2008 MMO video game
- W.A.R., a 1986 video game
Film and television[edit]
- War film, a genre of film
- War (miniseries), a 1983 Canadian television miniseries
- The War (1994 film), a 1994 film starring Elijah Wood and Kevin Costner
- War (2002 film), a 2002 Russian film about the Second Chechen War
- "War" (Da Ali G Show), a 2003 episode
- War (2007 film), a 2007 Jet Li and Jason Statham film
- The War (miniseries), a 2007 television documentary about World War II by Ken Burns
- War, Inc., a 2008 American political satire film
- War (2014 film), a 2014 Swiss film
- War (2019 film), an Indian action thriller film directed by Siddharth Anand, part of the YRF Spy Universe
- The Chaser's War on Everything or simply The War, an Australian television comedy series
Literature[edit]
- War (Junger book), a 2010 book by Sebastian Junger about Afghanistan
- War (novel), a 1996 novel by Simon Hawke
- War, Literature & the Arts, an American military literary magazine
Comics[edit]
- War comics, a genre of comics
- War (Marvel Comics), several Marvel Comics characters
- The War (comics), a 1989 Marvel Comics limited series
Visual arts[edit]
- War (Böcklin painting), two 1896 oil paintings by Arnold Böcklin
- The War (Dix engravings), a 1924 series of etchings by Otto Dix
- The War (Dix triptych), a 1932 oil painting by Otto Dix
- War (Rego painting), a 2003 pastel on paper by Paula Rego
Other uses[edit]
- The War (boxing), a 1985 bout between Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns
- War language, spoken in the Indian subcontinent
- Waray language in the Philippines
- Winchester Automatic Rifle
- Wins Above Replacement, a sabermetric baseball statistic
- War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- War, a legendary character from the myth of founding of the city of Warsaw; see Wars and Sawa
See also[edit]
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